Archive for May 10th, 2004

something positive…and political??? HERE???

Monday, May 10th, 2004

Yup,

I finally found something to energize me. Good thing it’s a Monday morning. Maybe I can push it on through to the end of the week.

Apparently a few Dems are going to try and get some of our rights back. The DMCA sucks monkey butt. Why? Because it’s now illegal to do things I used to do all the time in high school. You can’t legally photocopy a book. I’m not talking about copying the whole thing, binding it and selling it. I’m saying that copying 5 pages of a book and then using it in class the next day? ILLEGAL.

Lending a CD or DVD to someone else? ILLEGAL.

Using your TiVo? Possibly illegal.

Buying generic toner cartridges? ILLEGAL.

So anyhow, here’s something you can do to try and take back some of our rights:

SUMMARY ON THIS INFO
http://arstechnica.com/news/posts/1084134579.html

JUMP RIGHT TO THE ACTION ITEM
http://action.eff.org/action/index.asp?step=2&item=2421